[Histonet] School Program Director Position

[Lee & Peggy Wenk]

To answer a couple of questions that have been asked of me:

A) What constitutes "teaching experience"?
Obviously, teaching in a NAACLS accredited HT or HTL program, even if it's 
only 1 topic. But, it could also include teaching a course at a community 
college, or some lectures or workshops at state or national meetings, or 
even doing some in-services. But it should include writing objectives and 
evaluations (tests questions).

There is no requirement as to needing "X number of hours" of teaching. Just 
that there has been some teaching in the last 3 years. The more, the better.

B) Why all the requirements for teaching experience, supervisory experience, 
etc. listed on the NSH jobs webpage? Is there some "wiggle room"?
The requirements listed are the NAACLS requirements for Program Directors. 
If you are missing a little bit, that's what the 1 year co-teach with me is 
for, to pick up what you are missing (never did EM, for example, or not a 
lot of experience writing exam questions). Sorry, must have BA/BS - NAACLS 
requirement. Since this is a HTL program, along with HT, we need someone to 
have passed the HTL exam. So no wiggle room in either of these.

(Hint for those people who think they want to be a program director some 
day - look at the requirements on my job listing, realize that the program 
director positions for all HT and HTL programs have the same requirements. 
Some places require a master's degree. There will be a lot of us program 
directors retiring in the next 10+ years, so start working on getting the 
degree, the HTL certification, the teaching experience, even if it's just 
presenting at state and/or national symposiums.)
www.nsh.org  click on career center, under job seeker click on view jobs

C) Are you going to stop teaching at NSH?
No, I hope not. I plan to continue to give presentations at NSH (if they 
accept my abstracts), and actually hope to increase the number of states I 
can give talks at. (hint, hint - invite me). Maybe write an article or two 
or three. Do some more teleconferences. Help new HT/HTL programs get off the 
ground, if they need help. Maybe consult. I'd like to think I have more 
options to do more teaching in more places. My husband has been retired for 
4.5 years, we've had a motor home for 0.5 years, and he's wondering when I'm 
going to catch up with him, so we can travel more.

Any other questions, toss them my way.

Peggy A. Wenk, BA, BS, HTL(ASCP)SLS
Program Director, Schools of Histotechnology
William Beaumont Hospital
Royal Oak, MI 48073
www.beaumont.edu/alliedhealth

-----Original Message----- 
From: Lee & Peggy Wenk
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 5:47 AM
To: Histonet
Subject: [Histonet] School Program Director Position

I’m planning on retiring September 2012 (next year). Our hospital (William 
Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan) is currently looking for someone to 
co-teach with me for the next year. We train 2 HT and 4 HTL each year. The 
program director does all the lectures and labs for histotechnology, 
immunology (IHC and IF), electron microscope, muscle enzyme histochemistry, 
molecular pathology, shares responsibility with the MT program director for 
education methodology and management classes, and does research/process 
improvement projects with the students, which they then write up as 
PowerPoints and present to the residents, pathologists and techs.

We’re looking for someone with:
- HTL(ASCP)
- Baccalaureate degree (BA or BS) minimum
- 5 years histotechnology experience minimum
- 3 years teaching experience minimum (including preparing presentations, 
and writing goals,objectives and exams)

For more information, go to the Careers Page on the NSH website
www.nsh.org
- On middle, right side, under Quick Link, click on Careers Center (I don’t 
know if you have to “register” yourself at this time)
- Under Job Seeker, click on View Jobs
- Click on Program Director, Schools of Histotechnology, posted on 06/30/11

Peggy A. Wenk, HTL(ASCP)SLS
Program Director
Schools of Histotechnology
William Beaumont Hospital
Royal Oak, MI 48073
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